Monthly Archives: July 2005

Communication Design

The means by which architects, planners, and builders communicate with clients and with the public are changing - and this is an inspiration to all of us Webbers working in the Internet world.
For the first time in history, communication professionals have a powerful, interactive, multimedia communication channel: the Internet. Direct, two-way communication of visual [...]

Media met the Web and then came Mobile

Somewhere between the mid-’90s and today, the WWW moved from technophile playground to 21st century marketplace. Along the way, well-established newspapers found themselves competing with upstart new-media companies for both readers and advertising dollars. Too bad for them - the message was getting out - ownership of information was waning …. or was it?
One of [...]

Off Topic - All Rock, No Action

By JEAN-CLAUDE SHANDA TONME, Yaoundé, Cameroon
LIVE 8, that extraordinary media event that some people of good intentions in the West just orchestrated, would have left us Africans indifferent if we hadn’t realized that it was an insult both to us and to common sense.
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LA Times lets readers re-write the editorials

I know that it has already been discussed a bit throughout the blogosphere (here & here), but I would be remiss if I didn’t bring it up here as well. LA Times recently deployed a wiki-based program that allows readers the ability to re-write published editorials.
Trouble stirring? Out of control? They call it [...]

Traditional Media has now lost it’s Edge

Change? Check this out … when former Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael K. Powell watched television coverage of the London bombings last week, he noticed that most of the significant pictures didn’t originate from professional photographers employed by news agencies. They came from witnesses at the scene using cell phones and digital cameras to document [...]